Thread by @fascinatorfun

I shall wait to summarise today’s data due to a hiccup on the Covid dashboard re death data.

🦠🦠🦠29,079 new cases

First time admissions have been under 3k since New Year’s Eve

VACCINATION 💉 looks as if an improvement after a slower couple of days

Total of 8,369,438 doses administered to 7,891,184 people.

478,254 of those people have had second doses.

That really is very good performance.

Gratitude to the Vaccination logistics and deployment teams

🏥 2903 admissions
🛌 35375 IN Patients
VENTILATOR 🛏 3918
3585 in England is a clear continual drop over a full week

Still pretty horrendous numbers but undoubtedly a slowing of ingress.

Lockdown IS working albeit we hoped it might just a bit faster.

Here’s @john_actuary ‘s summary of where we are on vaccine roll out compared with goal for 15 February

https://twitter.com/john_actuary/status/1355187321147109382

We now have today’s 28 day death figures

⚰️⚰️⚰️1245.

Now 15 days with over 1k deaths by date of death. At least 5 days with over 1200 and notifications still coming in.

⚰️💔⚰️💔. 121,237 COVID deaths

How did I reach that figure? Still an undercount

ONS stats authority deaths by date of death= 107,907 to 15/1/21 - see screen shot left)

+

13,330 deaths by date of death (28 day cut off) 16/1/21 - 28/1/21.

Still a lot of deaths to be notified.

I in every 560 U.K. citizens have died due to Covid for sure. Most (c90%) with Covid as the driving cause

I will be very surprised if we do not cross that appalling boundary

1 in every 500 U.K. citizens dead of Covid.